data strategy

As we move further into the age of high availability and instant gratification we must adapt our business practices to this ever changing demand. Similar to most markets, data protection requires a far different product than it did at the turn of the century. “Out of sight, out of mind” is not an acceptable strategy for off-site backup.
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Small and medium businesses cannot afford to lose their data. Research shows that even brief server failures can lead smaller businesses to shut their doors for good. In light of this, businesses need workable backup and disaster recovery plans. Until recently, however, most backup and disaster recovery solutions were aimed at large enterprise. Today, the environment is changing. Protecting data is becoming more and more important and new technologies are making backup and recovery strategies viable to smaller businesses.

TS Tech is an active, vibrant MSP in Pennsylvania. They have a wide variety of clients and operate with a fixed-rate business model. In order for them to get solid ROI, they have to use the best, most reliable technologies. When it comes to backup and disaster recovery, TS Tech president says StorageCraft ShadowProtect not only protects his clients, but saves him money by cutting down on backup and disaster recovery tickets.

There are many case studies with real data extolling the benefits of cloud computing and virtualization - the twin forces behind the transformation of the way companies of all shapes and sizes 'do' computing. But to take part in this information revolution, it's critical to have the right underpinnings. That means not only upgrading the decade-old Windows Server 2003 operating system software that still drives more than 12 million servers, but also upgrading the underlying hardware to ensure you realize all the benefits the software can deliver. The combination Windows Server 2012 and the latest Intel Xeon based server hardware should be part of an IT strategy for companies and departments looking to modernize their IT infrastructure. This checklist will identify 10 of the top issues driving the need for server OS software and hardware upgrades.

Many organizations face “economics of necessity” in light of extreme data growth. As data increases, the “throw-another-box-at-it” approach simply does not make good business sense. That’s where unified hybrid storage proves its value. With the right strategy in place, unified hybrid storage fits to optimize capacity, connectivity and performance for every type data – providing you the flexibility to:
• Run a lot faster, when and where you need to
• Scale up non-disruptively to outmaneuver data growth
• Connect with any application in your environment
Explore The INI Group Market Report: Unified Hybrid Storage to discover how to design a flexible, extendable storage solution that fits your organization.

Data is a driver of growth and change that is quickly becoming the world's most valuable resource. As such, finance leaders face increased pressure to value data as an asset on their balance sheets and use it to drive business strategy. To capitalize on the power of data, learn how to pinpoint where you are today. what steps you can take to reach your goals and how to measure success.

For data-driven businesses, cloud can be a boon. Data can be found, processed and managed on the cloud without an investment in local hardware infrastructure, but what does that mean to information trust and governance? When data comes from cloud-based sources, IT needs a plan for data integration and security.
Download this insightful white paper and learn the four key priorities you must consider when developing your IT strategy to promote good hybrid information governance. Learn the blend of process, organizational and technical enablers that will allow you to move to a hybrid environment with speed and confidence.

Backup and high availability are both essential forms of protection that fulfill different roles within a data protection strategy. So which type of protection is right for different systems? According to recent analyst reports, experts recommend a blended approach that aligns data protection with type of data.By aligning data protection with data urgency, businesses can ensure higher levels of resiliency and reduce demands on internal resources.

Don't let the risk or cost of ransomware storm your organization's castle. it will wreak havoc on your valuable data and impact business continuity. Instead, employ a multi-layer security strategy that not only includes anti-malware, firewall, and hard disk and file encryption, but also data loss prevention technology and standards- based data protection. Each are critical to mitigate cyber security risks and protect vital information so you can avoid business disruption without ever paying a king's ransom.

What you'll learn:
• Why batch-and-blast email is losing its effectiveness and the email techniques to replace it.
• How techniques like user-generated content and the mining of unstructured data can boost email effectiveness.
• What artificial intelligence is offering today – and what it could offer years from now.
• How omnichannel merchants can leverage physical locations as part of their online strategy.

New data sources are fueling innovation while stretching the limitations of traditional data management strategies and structures. Data warehouses are giving way to purpose built platforms more capable of meeting the real-time needs of a more demanding end user and the opportunities presented by Big Data. Significant strategy shifts are under way to transform traditional data ecosystems by creating a unified view of the data terrain necessary to support Big Data and real-time needs of innovative enterprises companies.

This paper summarizes the trends that have made modernizing backup and recovery an urgent priority, the key requirements for solution offerings, and the unique capabilities of Veritas NetBackup™ Appliances in delivering a simple, complete, and cost-effective solution.

In the age of the customer, businesses realize the need to take their big data insights further than they have before, in order to win, serve, and retain their customers. Today’s modern company has more data than ever before and is now looking to derive insights from the data that will help propel it forward. As firms move data analytics to the cloud, there is a new set of challenges and barriers to overcome, but with the help of insights-platforms-as-a-service, companies will be able to innovate with data and drive business forward.

IT organizations today must work in an “and” world, rather than an “or” world to meet the demands of their users. In an “and” world, IT architectures and strategies leverage an ever-broadening variety of tools while still supporting and propelling a single strategy.

Around-the-clock global operations, data growth, and server virtualization all together can complicate protection and recovery strategies. They affect when and how often you can perform backups, increase the time required to back up, and ultimately affect your ability to successfully restore. These challenges can force lower standards for recovery objectives, such as reducing the frequency of backup jobs or protecting fewer applications, both of which can introduce risk. High-speed snapshot technologies and application integration can go a long way toward meeting these needs, and they have quickly become essential elements of a complete protection strategy. But snapshot copies have often been managed separately from traditional backup processes. Features like cataloging for search and retrieval as well as tape creation usually require separate management and do not fully leverage snapshot capabilities. To eliminate complexity and accelerate protection and recovery, you need a solution

ENDPOINT DATA. It’s often one of the most forgotten aspects of an enterprise data protection strategy. Yet, content on laptops, desktops and mobile devices is among a company’s most valuable data even while it’s potentially at the greatest risk. According to IDC there will be some 1.3 billion mobile workers by 2015. However, only half of enterprises today are using some type of endpoint backup. That means that the volume of endpoint data that is in jeopardy is nothing short of significant.
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The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is flooding today’s industrial sector with data. Information is streaming in from many sources — equipment on production lines, sensors at customer facilities, sales data, and much more. Harvesting insights means filtering out the noise to arrive at actionable intelligence.
This report shows how to craft a strategy to gain a competitive edge. It explains how to evaluate IIoT solutions, including what to look for in end-to-end analytics solutions. Finally, it shows how SAS has combined its analytics expertise with Intel’s leadership in IIoT information architecture to create solutions that turn raw data into valuable insights.

Business Enterprises today need to become more agile, meet new and
increasing workload and security requirements, while reducing overall IT cost
and risk. To meet these requirements many companies are turning to cloud
computing. To remain competitive companies need to formulate a strategy
that can easily move them from traditional on-premises IT to private or public
clouds. A complete cloud strategy will likely include both private and public
clouds because some applications and data might not be able to move to a
public cloud. Moving to the cloud should not create information silos but
should improve data sharing. Any cloud strategy should make sure that it is
possible to integrate on-premises, private cloud and public cloud data and
applications. Furthermore, any on-premises cloud deployments must be able
to easily migrate to public cloud in the future

Business Enterprises today need to become more agile, meet new and
increasing workload and security requirements, while reducing overall IT cost
and risk. To meet these requirements many companies are turning to cloud
computing. To remain competitive companies need to formulate a strategy
that can easily move them from traditional on-premises IT to private or public
clouds. A complete cloud strategy will likely include both private and public
clouds because some applications and data might not be able to move to a
public cloud. Moving to the cloud should not create information silos but
should improve data sharing. Any cloud strategy should make sure that it is
possible to integrate on-premises, private cloud and public cloud data and
applications. Furthermore, any on-premises cloud deployments must be able
to easily migrate to public cloud in the future.

SingleHop was interested in adding capacity to its data centers while at the same time achieving a predictable cost structure using an outsourcing strategy for the development and management of these mission critical facilities. Find out why they turned to Digital Realty.

When measuring competitive differentiation in milliseconds, connectivity is a key component for any financial services company’s data center strategy. In planning the move of its primary data center, a large international futures and commodities trading company needed to find a provider that could deliver the high capacity connectivity it required.